Natural Health

The Botanica Experience: Elevating Your Health Care

In the pursuit of holistic wellness, it is essential to find a healthcare partner that understands YOUR journey is unique. At Botanica Medicines Naturopathic Dispensary, we’re committed to providing a comprehensive and personalised wellness experience that goes beyond traditional healthcare.
Our senior Naturopath, Pia Miles, is dedicated to providing a nurturing, personalised and high standard of care, elevating your experience.

It might start with a one-off night of rough sleep. One of those night’s where you can’t get your mind to switch off, the temperature is too hot or too cold, and your eyelids don’t want to shut. Then suddenly, you’re realising it’s been a week, a month, a year – maybe even a lifetime! – of broken, restless, or just a lack of sleep.

When it comes to healthcare & medicine, we’re living in an ever-changing & evidence-based time – very different to hundreds of years ago where scientific evidence was less available, and people made their health decisions based on anecdotal & traditional evidence.

When we think of our Australian climate, we think of surf, sun and sand, and the great outdoors. With vitamin D readily available from the sun, why are so many people deficient in this important vitamin?

The following tips are helpful regardless of your vaccination status, and will help your immune system in general. If you are planning to receive a vaccination soon, we encourage you to discuss these factors with your primary healthcare provider. Generally speaking, we advise you focus on these recommendations before, during and after vaccination.

Not only are you recovering from the birth of your child you are also tired from lack of sleep and worried about how much or how little milk your baby is getting. Anxiety can creep in but remember that if your baby is gaining weight adequately then he is getting enough milk. He may be crying for some other reason and that is the frustrating part. She can grow quickly at times or more slowly so don’t worry if the growth is not uniform.

It might start with a one-off night of rough sleep. One of those night’s where you can’t get your mind to switch off, the temperature is too hot or too cold, and your eyelids don’t want to shut. Then suddenly, you’re realising it’s been a week, a month, a year – maybe even a lifetime! – of broken, restless, or just a lack of sleep.

It’s complex system, and can be affected by many unrelated aspects of our lives. Poor sleep quality, high stress levels, unwise food choices, low fitness levels, poor gut health and low exposure to sunshine can play a damaging role.

These factors offer natural resistance to infection, or natural immunity. Acquired immunity can offered by a vaccine which drives antibody production in response to a vaccine.

Gerald Quigley, Medical Herbalist, Pharmacist & Health Commentator, answers:
“Long COVID” known medically as PASC or Post Sequelae of COVID-19 is now fairly common. In fact, up to 30% of COVID patients can develop long COVID.